Happy Anniversary, Jakey!

I can't believe we've been married for four years already! Where did the time go? I have had so much fun being married to you. You're the best husband in the world and I'm so glad I chose to marry you. Thanks for being so good to me and little Bridger. I love you so much!

Family Picture

We finally got a picture of our little family! We took it over Thanksgiving while we were up in Idaho with Jake's family. We took pictures of the whole Nielsen side (which I don't have yet, but I'll be sure to post them) and we took individual family pictures. Bridger is so cute in this picture! I love it!

Journal

If you are horrible at writing in your journal like I am, check out LDSjournal.com. My mother-in-law told me about it and I love it! I have actually started writing in a journal that I enjoy! I've done it for a whole week now! That doesn't sound like much but it's an accomplishment for me. It's online but if you want to print it out in a book format you can when you get enough pages written. I also started one for Bridger where I type about what he's been up to. It's really fun and I think he'll love to read it when he's older. (You have to be 13 years old though so I had to fib about his age.) Anyway, I just thought I'd share.

Ready for Christmas!

The Monday after Thanksgiving, Jake, Bridger, and I bought our Christmas tree and got it all decorated. It's always my favorite FHE of the year. Jake made a fire, we ate cinnamon toast and drank hot chocolate, listened to Christmas music, put up our Christmas lights, and decorated the tree all in time for Jake to make it to play tennis at Scott's by 9:00pm. Bridger loves the tree and luckily he is not interested in crawling or walking yet or he would eat it up!

Thanksgiving #2

We were lucky this year to be able to have TWO Thanksgiving dinners in a row! On Thanksgiving day Zach flew in and the next day we drove up to Idaho Falls to be with Jake's family. Everyone was there and Misty and Vernon hosted our Thanksgiving meal. It was fun to spend some time together again. While we were altogether we took family pictures too (which turned out to be so cute!). We also got to go to Eeva's blessing on Sunday before we came home. It was a great weekend! I just realized while I was going through my pictures that I didn't take very many. Whoops! Oh well, enjoy the few that I did take!

Jake holding Eeva

Papa making Bridger laugh

The cute Richmond family

Grandma, Misty, and Eeva

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving day! This year we had dinner with my mom's side of the family. The Smith family had grown so much that we have to have our dinner at a church building. The food was delicious and it was fun spending time with cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. I have always loved Thanksgiving! What could be better than sitting around with your family stuffing yourself silly with some of the best food in the world?

Me and Jake

Bridger just hanging out and chewing on his binkie

It was fun getting to spend time with my cousin/old roommate, Liz, and her cute kids!

My mom and Aunt Sandy

I tried to get everyone in one picture but I couldn't even fit everyone so here's about 3/4 of the group.

Meeting Eeva

Misty stopped by my parents house while she was in Salt Lake so Bridger and I could meet baby Eeva. (Jake already met her when he picked up Lynnadele from Idaho Falls just a few days after she was born). She is Bridger's first girl cousin on Jake's side of the family. We were so excited to meet her! She is adorable! She will have to be one tough little chick with four boy cousins and one more on the way!

Uncle Jake and Eeva

Eeva, Jake, Misty, and Bridger

Family Pictures

A few weeks ago we took some family pictures in my mom and dad's back yard. We didn't have any professional photographer take them, we just set up my mom's camera on a tripod and took a bunch of pictures. Then Barry doctored up the picture on his high-tech computer program and made it look just right. It turned out to be one of our best pictures ever! We're going to do it this way from now on. Goodbye expensive professional photographers!

The pictures below are taken on my camera so they're nothing special but turned out pretty cute. Some day I want to be a part of the D50 club!

Our little family

Bridger and Mommy

Daddy and Bridger

Grandpa making Bridger laugh

Brody and Corine's family

The original Hart family

Grandma and Grandpa with the grandkids